Re: Preventing variables from being passed to a sub-make

[Paul Smith]

On Wed, 2007-06-06 at 17:29 +0100, Will Newton wrote:

> I'm having problems stopping make from passing variables passed on the
> command line to a sub-make.

I think it's very, very unwise to break this capability, personally.  I
would rather change your top-level makefile to use some different
variable that won't interfere with submakefiles (or vice versa).

> The manual mentions unsetting MAKEFLAGS or MAKEOVERRIDES but this
> seems to have no effect.

If you really want to do this you can use:

        -*-command-variables-*- =
        subdirs:
                $(MAKE)

You can use "make -pf/dev/null" to see all the predefined variables and
how they fit together.

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